Noun

• S: (n) strafe (an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane) "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) attack, onslaught, onset, onrush ((military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)) "the attack began at dawn"
• S: (n) ground attack (an attack by ground troops)
• S: (n) charge (an impetuous rush toward someone or something) "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
• S: (n) banzai attack, banzai charge (a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai')
• S: (n) diversion, diversionary attack (an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack)
• S: (n) penetration, incursion (an attack that penetrates into enemy territory)
• S: (n) blitz, blitzkrieg (a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment)
• S: (n) strike (an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective) "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"
• S: (n) counterattack, countermove (an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.)
• S: (n) bombing, bombardment (an attack by dropping bombs)
• S: (n) fire, firing (the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy) "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
• S: (n) strafe (an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane) "the next morning they carried out a strafe of enemy airfields"
• S: (n) surprise attack, coup de main (an attack without warning)
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) strafe (attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane) "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"